This baby is really cute, he had the cutest little personality and the cutest name EVER!!:) 

The Breaking Dawn Party was a blast because I had my fellow crazy about the Twighlight series chica with me!!(She was pretty mad at Jacob, but decided to come anyways:))  Kim and Mubeen!!  If I would have only known you two would have come, we could have all gone together, luckily there will be another!!!

Somos tan guapas!!HAHAHA!! Es un chiste no te preocupes!

This is the nicest group of people I know!!  Cheers to the Burleson Ward!!!(ok, ok joshua too!!)

So we went to James Williams Photography Studio in Ohio to get some training on photography and business.  We read a book that James Williams wrote called, "How to create a High Profit Photography Business,"  and we found out that he also does training so we went for a day and soaked in as much as we could.  We are implementing a few things and plan on going back in the future. This is a picture of me that he took...he was demonstrating how to get the lighting just right, to help slim features and create the best portrait possible depending on the facial structure and body type of your subject...it's very interesting.

Triphttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zkfXruEANes/SKMCe5zNUCI/AAAAAAAAAKU/ME8xqZegYow/s1600-h/IMG_5996.jpg

So we went to Lousville, Kentucky on our way home from our photography training in Ohio.  And for those of you that don't know, I tried out for American Idol!  It was a really fun experience!  Here are some pics.  We thought it would take all day to get in so we drove straight through from ohio until 4:30 in the morning and then waited in line.  We ended up getting through and leaving by 8:30am the whole line had to have been cleared up at least by 10am.  There were a ton of people as you can see, but the line went fast. So we should have waited til 10am and then we would have had no wait at all!!  That was the line for registration.  Then two days later we got in line for the actual audition at 5am.  We went inside the stadium and sang songs for the beginning of the show and danced and stuff.

We went running to shake off the nerves the day before audition day.  Man!! My face gets so red!

Look at all those people in the stadium!!  The whole thing wasn't actually this full but this picture makes it seem this way.  That's the angle that they shot from for the show to make it seem like the whole place is full.

These are a few of the people that we met in line.
  

Look at that hot guy I met in line..Oooh baby!!So finally it's my turn to go in!!  It was very distracting because there were 8 booths and we had to line up in groups of 4 and I could hear other people auditioning, but I tuned it all out and sang well.  I was nervous waiting in line, but when it was my turn I  put it all aside and did the best I could.

Look at those judges!!  They are soo uninterested!!  The one on left kept on looking away..they were doing this with everybody!!  I guess if I had to listen to that many people sing, I might get a little bored too, but it was annoying, I focused on her as I sang until she finally focused on me.  


Look at my hair!!  Waiting outside for hours in the humidity really helped me get this  gorgeous hairdo!!  So I didn't make it:(  But it was fun anyways, especially to see how it all works.  The reasoning they told all four of us in our group was that the nerves got the best of us.  And this bothers me because I know my voice wasn't shaky or anything. But they don't have time to explain it all to every person I'm sure.  So next year I'm dying my hair black and going as an Asian!!HAHA    

Bday Party

When we went shopping for a gift for the party I asked Ethan to help me pick out some toys, I found a spiderman toy riding a motorcycle and asked Ethan if he thought that Dave would like it and he said, "I really like it!"  Emphasizing the "I," he said this several times trying to hint that he wanted one too, but I was good and didn't buy him anything.  So we went to Dave's birthday party on Saturday and the kids had soo much fun!  May be a little too much fun because when it was time to leave it was a bit embarrassing...Hope screamed when I took away the baby she had found and had claimed as hers and Ethan was crying loudly "I don't want to go home!!"  I finally bribed  them with cookies and they forgot about everything but the taste of chocolate chips! Here are some pics of the party...
What happened to the balloon!!
Ethan actually made several shots!!!  He's gonna be a pitcher...as soon as he realizes he's left-handed!

I used to love these things when I was a kid!  I remember one summer of the many we spent in Hurricane, Utah at Grandma and Grandpa Heaton's, for some reason ( I think Grandpa was watering) the whole yard was full of water and we slipped and slid across the lawn as much as our little hearts desired...those were the days!
The water balloons were a big hit with all the kids!
Ethan and Ammon chowing down on some food!  As you can see Ammon only cares about the grapes he is staring at!!
The Birthday Boy!! I was trying to get a good picture of him, but there were too many distractions!!
Ethan enjoying the yummy cupcakes!!  The icing was soo good!! I think Barb said that she made them herself..I'm not sure but they were good!
Hope's baby!!  hope loves babies, of course cause she's a girl, but somehow she managed to find the one baby in the room full of boy toys and cuddled with it and carried it around until it was time to leave!  (she almost tripped down the stairs on the blanket! Thank you for saving her Jason!)   It was a great day for the kids, they ran around and played so much that a couple minutes into the ride home, they were sound asleep in the backseat and didn't even blink an eye when I got them out.  Great party Barb!! 

 That night I had to go help take pictures at a wedding so Kim Moore came to the rescue and watched the kids.  She had Five kids there, Kelsey, Carter, Zeke, Ethan, and Hope..Crazy!!  Thank you Kim!!:)  

On a side note, I love the Burleson Ward! Everyone is soo nice and there are a lot of people my age there.  So I was disappointed not only by the fact that Hope got sick and started vomitting, but also because we couldn't go to church this Sunday:(

After eating we came home and he got a few more presents.  He wanted to sleep with his new toy!
Ethan getting goodies from the goodie machine.
Ethan opening his one present that we let him bring to the restaurant.
Our good friends Jason and Jessica Filina

Ethan's token smile at 17 months 
Ethan's token smile at 11 months.
Here is a pic of us.. Ethan is using his token fake smile.  He's been doing it since he was 11 months old.
When we came home from the party the first thing Ethan wanted to play with was his Sword!!









So.. the 8th was Ethan's real birthday and we decided to take him to Pancho's because Libby had told me how much Aidan had enjoyed going on his birthday. The Filina's came and made it that much more fun!! Ethan enjoyed it, he really liked putting the hat on and having everyone sing to him.  I made him another brownie pizza and the next morning he said , "I'm hungry... I want some cake!!"   Also, the birthday party at the bounce house went really well.. Ethan and Aiden both had a blast and all the kids that got to come enjoyed the place too! We showed a slideshow of cute pics of Ethan and Aiden and you should have seen their faces!!  Aiden was laughing and Ethan was intently watching for the next picture of himself to pop up while singing to the soundtrack of cars that was playing!!  It was cute... I even heard some of the kids humming the Cars song afterwards...I figured they would all like and know those songs!  Anyways, Ethan is a so great to have in our family, he's soo sweet and so fun to have around!  I love you Ethan!!! 

Wedding Pictures

Here are some of my favorite pictures of the last wedding we did.  I was actually there and took a few of the pictures myself! I've also done most of the post work.  I'm really very impressed and excited at the progression we have made throughout this past year and a half at the studio. We are doing so much and learning how business, in general, works.  It's challenging, but rewarding as well.

I also am uploading a wedding pamphlet that I designed.  I've designed about five of them all separated by category of photography...weddings, seniors,families, etc...

The picture on the front of the pamplet is my favorite picture out of all our weddings...I wish I had one like this from our wedding. I'm not sure how great these pictures are going to look because I had to downgrade the quality quite a bit to put them online so we'll see.  Anyways that's that for now.